Critical Theories of Race and Racism

3 Hours

Introduction to global perspectives on race, ethnicity, and racism. Examines the historical relationship between the emergence of ideas about race and Western modernity: importance of slavery and European colonialism in producing modern understandings of race and racial difference; contemporary racial formation in the period after the anticolonial struggles of the mid-twentieth century. May be counted toward the race and ethnicity specialization or the theory specialization. Sociology 394K (Topic: Critical Theories on Race and Racism) and 395L (Topic 10) may not both be counted.